A team of world-leading neuroscientists has developed a powerful technique that allows them to look deep inside a person's brain and read their intentions before they act.
A Danish researcher believes he may have solved the classic Fermi paradox. Extra-terrestrials have yet to find us because they haven't had enough time to look.
Mathematicians claim to have worked out how to make a cloaking device to render objects invisible.
The European Space Agency has successfully launched the first satellite in its Galileo project, a direct rival to the U.S. monopoly on space-based global positioning services.
Engineers are working on software to load every photo you take, every letter you write - in fact your every memory and experience - into a surrogate brain that never forgets anything.
The time is ripe for developing a profitable space tourism industry, according to advisers to the US Air Force space programme. They have developed a strategy that they say could make space flight so cheap it could attract millions of space tourists within 10 years.
Learning how to fly took nature millions of years of trial and error - but a winged robot has cracked it in only a few hours, using the same evolutionary principles. Krister Wolff and Peter Nordin of Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, built a winged robot and set about testing whether it could learn to fly by itself, without any pre-programmed data on what flapping is or how to do it.
Tagging strands of DNA with tiny gold particles could allow scientists to switch genes on and off inside the body by remote control. The method could be used to tell cells when to produce specific proteins, such as insulin.
Fears that terrorists may have planned to use crop-dusting aeroplanes to spray US cities with biological warfare agents need to be taken seriously, according to British experts. While such an attack would face technical difficulties, it could be extremely effective, they say.
Solar cells that "self assemble" from a liquid have been developed by scientists at the University of Cambridge. The breakthrough could make it cheap and easy to cover large areas, like roofs, with efficient, ultra-thin solar cell coatings.